SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1931 THE MILITANT PAGE DISCUSSION ARTICLES Organization Notes The Party and the Opposition Tasks of At Education and the Young Communists thel of miners in Colorado carried on and the defeats of the German and Childred times more so for the forl within the general mass movement. The sky to the Institute for Party story.
er of the elempang said large port on both coasts. After the 21this point the struggle between Foster strike this tremendous strength was dis and Lovestone sharpened as a result of sipated. Two years later the Marine which the opportune time for launching Transport Workers of the could a union was deferred for years, contruthfully claim a membership of trom vention was held a year and half ago 25 to 30. 000. Some brilliant strikes were which in composition contained the fincarled on, of which San Pedro, Calic. est representation seen in many year ference discussion the National Com For the arrangements of our pre conNevertheless we must say more speed.
go The contributions received since last (Continued from last issue) sults of this wild adventurism is that working class history as a most herole launched, the Marine Workers Industrial mittee has decided that it is necessary report were as follows: 2, 000 The Communist party came on the trom a following of 50, 000, tue Indus and bitterly contested struggle. This un nion. Mink, Sparks and such kindred to arrange contributions in such a ww scene in 1918 19 following on the heels trial today commands membership ton also went to smash, this time as a ilk who had no knowledge of the indus that they do not exceed two columns per of the October revolution. The basic which is variously estimated from 3500 result of the characteristic muddlehead trs were picked as the chosen Icaders article, but with no restrictions upon the elements the party recruited from were to 1500. To finish this devasting picture edness of syndicalist leadership. In 1928, Most of the militants who entered into number of contributions which any memnsubmit. We count 1, 750 foreign workers, members of the numer of decline a new policy is belng evolved. the party organized the Marine Workers ite unlon were pot conv. rced Commanber may wish ous Federations that had been connected to go back into the company unions International Club on South Street Newists, yet they were willing to undertake general not on more than one page per for years with the American Socialist for the purpose of there raising the York harbor. The purpose of this club the task of organizing under the conclude the publication of the additional Party. The first few years of the party slogan of destroying the company unwas to coordinate Left wing sentiments trolling leadership of the This theses and resolutions existence were to a large extent taken ions. only to renew tomorrow the un with the object of launching a much was not to be. Elements who would not 00 For those who may at the outset look Boston br.
up with preparatory work. On the one Ited front from above. This field was neded union (Andrew Furseth once said put up with all the impositions of the hand a systematic attempt to raise the probably the most fruitful in the whole that If the Salvation Army was so mind bureaucracy were not desirable. The for an analysis and conclusions from the New York Hela 201, 00 1, 500 Meological level of the general member party existence. The general attitude ed, it could organize the Marine Work Marino Workers Industrial Union after while that was not contained in the main Toronto br. 11. 00 ship which had come out of the ranks of the needle traded workers who deers into a fighting union. This club a bare year existence cannot even searaft thesis it will become part of our Cleveland of official socialism, absolutely innocent spite the party claims bave not be was no sooner organized than it began classified as a skeleton. The best ele proposed resolution on developments Brodys. no 1, 200 of any theory, and on the other, the nord come reactionary. who have not for to draw around its told all the leadink ments have been driven out or mech: within the International and in the Left Alinneapolis br. 11. 55 of lifting the party into open political gotten the lessons the struggles militants in the industry. There were anically eliminated. Here too, the party Opposition Kansas City br. 20. 00 work. The whole character of the party taught them by the Left wing is a uni men who through 10 or 15 years of the influence practically non existent, In taking up this discussion in the Total 72. SG for the first four years of its existence versal distrust of the party leadership war and post war period had gone where it is not totally discredited.
various branches the best method will Previously 1, 000 was seriously colored by a semi con on any question concerning their status through a history of organized struggle. To Be Continued)
naturally be the one of first taking up reported 103. 41 spiratory nature which was the ont in the every day struggle.
They were well trained militants. ROSE the general estimates and the conTotal growth of the post war governmental The next outstanding event was clusions which the draft thesis presents.
to date 1, 177. 27 750 persecutions.
the sale strike where despite the Once that is thoroughly understood it The slowness of the party leadership to acbecomes easier to take up possible The native proletarian elements who cept the page or buttle some 25, 000 to In the program of the Young Commun ganized in accordance with these funda amendments on certain aspects, adding at that time still cente around the 3000 workery carried on a struggle for ist International adopted at its Fifth mental ideas. The Rights and the Cen omissions or proposing changes of formu600W. were at first neglected by this a half a year. This strike partook of Congress its character as an educational trists have distorted the whole idea of latlon it any. In the discussion in gen rising movement. It was not until 1919 all the sharpness so characteristic of organisation affirmed.
and again 1921 that a definito effort American labor battles. After this pro correct programmatic statement, the gradually dissolving the party in the written contributions, comrades should Despite this the parts. In the Soviet Union they are eral, both within the branches and the 250 over the heads of the American Com tracted struggle the collective party wismunist leadership was made. The of dom could find no better road than to this function. For them to do so would ments unqualified to be in the vanguard what systematically, possibilities are the Young Communist Leagues do not fuld class through wholesale admission of ele bear in mind that when proceeding somefort emanated directly from an appeal hand these workers over bag and bag by the Communist International signed gage to the of fakers, to dismeant to come into conflict with the whole factories Joining en masse. In best for an exhaustive clarification of ruling regime in the Cmintern.
the capitalist countries an analogous pro views. llence our fundamental political by Zinovler asking the to join sipate and demoralize. The party inIn the creation of a unified Commun luence in assaic, New Bedford (where The members of the do not cess occurs through the indiscriminate views should receive first consideration, 1st movement. By this time the a strike took place two years ago Involrounderstand the educational nature of admission of elemente who do not pos that is, discuss first the dratt thelsen: had degenernted to a very large ex Ing almost as many workers as Passale. their organization. For them its whole sess the proper prerequisites for mem This will then facilitate taking up tent. In a great measure this was is reported by Manuilsky at the recent purposes expressed in the simple for bership Democratic centralism has been further the tasks which flow from these caused by the removal of its provious conference as having reached mula to win the youth for the struk eliminated. The proletarian wing has fundamental views as well as the tactical FRAGMENTS OF TRUTH FROM leadership by governmental prosecution a practical 1088 of all intuence.
Ble against capitalism. The vanguard been expelled. The apparatus has as questions and organizational problems UNDER THE GARBAGE OF SLANDER and imprisonment and the entry of There had been a maluers strike role of the party and how the urped the functions of the party. Bur implied.
contributes to the creation of this van caucratism reigns supreme.
anarchistle elements into some of the enbrucing some to 400, 000 workers guard is not understood by Our Recent Activities In 1924, Zinovlev set into circulation them, al.
an accusation against Trotsky for issuleading positions. The clumsy maneu spread over the principal mining centers though they may know formally that the not permitted to criticize the policies In the the members are The Boston branch has been teming the railroad Order 1012. which vering and award machinations of some of the country. For two years while party is supposed to be the vanguard ot and lines of the apparatus which must porarily reinforced by the arrival of com was supposed to have nearly ruited of the party elements sent in to capture this struggle was waxing sharper and or destroy the also helped sharper, the party press and spokes: tent for them. The importance of the state whether the unque tionably cor will function there in an organizing cap.
te close the formen borcance and come be viewed as Infulisle. They can only de San Giorder from New York. He wanted to start onder men ette ka verabroiderea The result of this whole process was man hardly mentioned the fact of its Marxian vanguard for the success made its that the most invaluable revolutionary existence. This policy of evasion was the revolution has been demonstrated by rectly applied. If bureaueration is dis meetings, helping to make contacts and of rect line has been correctly or incor acity, help the branch by speaking at their designs. The legend rounds in its day throughout the press elements, trained for years in sharp finally brought to a head by the strike the victory of the Russian revolutionstrous for the party, it is even a hun in taking up more effectively the work of the Comintern. In a letter by Trotstruggles, were eliminated from movement. At no time before the very der the auspices of the , Out nese revolutions. The Young Communist it strikes at the very heart and iden period of his stay is not definitely de the actual coments et lenn ander recent period could the be of this strike grew a nation wide aglclassified in the same general political tation for relief and defense. The party guard only if it functions correctly as the youth necessary.
League can help forge the Marxian van. which makes a seperate organization of termined but depends upon the possibili xhinsky on Order 1012 and its signific category as classical Buropean syndical pounced upon this movement as a god. an educational organization. But does ties as well as the resources available. ance for transportation, are reproduced.
ism. Here the petty bourgeois philoso send through which they could somehow it? Let us restate the problem here: movement depends on 10. The future of the Communist yonth Comrades Clarke and Stamm have now But it appears that there is a comment of more recent origin. In the Annual of phy of sabotage and all its kindred enter into the neglected mine felds.
manifestations never assumed command They immediately started a general redin capitalist noclety the young against the bureaucratic rexime and a Cleveland. Jointly they have been speak the Comintern which appeared in 1923, Ing induences. The worst that can be lief movement which for Intensity and are the needs for his particular physical rests. This can be done only through Square to an ever increasing and ever against Trotsky. in an article The said about the Is that it lacked thoroughness in considerable fashion and mental development wbich he un the road proposed by the Left Opport. more sympathetic audience. They have Transport of the and Its Marxian understanding Yet with sound covered up its previous neglect. Ondergoes during this period completely gles into open political actions. Every with the miner struggle. From itsed than the adult worker. He is. com. the future regenerated communist parts the lett Opposition and recetved our pletely rulned. There was not only 30 class instincts, it raised all it, strug. thing we must remember in connection disregarded, but he is even more burden. ton. The cadres from the Communist reported many examples of the eager. Rehabilitation the following is youth movement will be educated for ness with which assembled workers have literally. At this time, transportaion was com strike led by the soon trane inception it took on the character of a pelled to work under worse conditions in the process of this struggle.
cended the mere momentary gains and strugglo, not only against the mine and receives less wages than the adult sumed general class character. operators but also against their lieut worker for the same amount of work.
literature. Concretely it has been proven talk about its rehabilitation, but matIt was not until 1923 that the Convenants, the United Mine Workers bur. He thus occupies a special position in devolve upon the left Opposition? The bution.
In view of this situation what tasks in an ever increasing literature distri ters went so far that in the Council of Labor and Defense, a member of the colmunist movement became a serious faceaucracy. Instead of raising the badly industry.
inability of the Young Communist League tor in American political life. At this needed slogan of a clean sweep with Comrade Stamm will henceforth carry lecium of the People Commissariat of time the party made its first attempt all the fakers, the purging of the the organization of the working class ist bureaucratie strangulation imposes in making a tour further went through the made a report to the effect that trans. The Young Communist League is to fulfill its function becanse of Stalin on alone in Cleveland while Clarke is Transportation, Professor Lomonosov, at active participation in the prevailing ton of all undesirable elements and a youth which defends its special interest. enormous responsililty on the shoulders mlue fields to St. Louis, Mo. There he portation is on the eve of complete and class struggle. The organization of the real fight against the bones, here insult unites them with the struggles of the of the Left Opposition. It must assume will remain for a while and help or unavoidable standstill. Comrade TrotT. as a center for co ordinating was heaped upon injury by an unprin whole working class for the improvement the duty of training the cadres from the anize the activities of our branch. Itsky, having undertaken the direction of the stivities of the Left wing workers cipled alliance with every rag tag rene of its conditions; and indissolubly merges south for the Communist vanguard. It is the expectations that he will also be transportation, advanced two slogans in the exlating trade union movement tionary who momentarily spouted Let them with the historie mission of the means that the Opposition must be alert able later to spend a little time in kan which had a decisive siguilcance not was launched. number of correct phrases. Out of this grew the famous proletariat for the destruction of capital to the youth question, and devote morosas City, Mo. This is not an organix only for transportation but for the whole slogans were raised: To broaden ont movement of unpleasant memories, the Ism and the establishment of the die Attention to it than it has in the past, ation tour in the usual sense of the word economy of the country. Order 1042 the base of existing unions by amalga Save the Miners Union Movement. tatorship of the proletariat as a transl. The advance of the Opposition will to but rather one of a footloose active mem is on historical one. According to it mation; the breaking down of the estab. After this adventure the party organized tlon stage to socialism.
lished narowing craft divisions; the as a brand new union the National Mina large extent be determined on its suc ber putting in an effort to help build the the locomotives were to be rehabilitated However, the need for a sumption of a more definite class char ers Union, this organization trimmed political organization of the separate ces in educating youth elements for Left Opposition in various places. The within five years. The Communist prorevolutionary phrases class youth arises not from its special working future leadership.
acter, and above all the question of or with all the results so far have nevertheless been of pagation of the Order and the Comdistinct organizational value.
ganizing the unorganised. This move and despite this contained some of the position in Industry, but from the pecu, is prevented from performing record of taking in several new members tained by the increase of the sea But does this mean that because the munist rise which this produced should The Minneapolis branch has made a be recognized as the hlashest level atment gained euch scope that by 1924 best known militants amongst the minand 1925 the Left wing organized anders. Within a year time, thanks to lar psychological characteristics of its real task correctly, that the Oppost during the last couple of months. Por readiness for labor for fents. Annual merballed hy the party through the the mechanical manipulation of had sucodded penetrating party buretuerats, with their system of become directly the defender the be no reason why the party should not perhaps attempt to create a new some time in the Dutch. Sa perfer term: the Comintern Petrograd Moscow, 1923, every corner of the organized movement. ellmination to the end of mechanical special interest of the youth adopting ership will perform its functions? This which literature is now being distributed.
of the which, because of correct Marxian leal tory and established contacts through page 362. The whole labor bureaucracy was Im mediately organized to crusade against ion called the Nine, MII. and as youth committees or youth vectlons to clusion. The relation of the Opposition cities and again strengthened the branch. ferent at different periode. ALFA.
control we arrive at another new un appropriate organizational forms such would be an extremely erroneous con These forces have returned to the twin the function of Order 1042 was all And so on and so forth. As we see, Smelter Workers Industrial Union concentrate on this work.
From 1926 onward the party played which Manullsky quotes as having The paychological characteristics of be in no way different than towards the relief work and the comrades report that to the enn at the present time The branch has participated in miners a decisive part in a number of strus membership of 50 (probably all tune youth, such as, the predominance of sen party. The arguments which determine as usual the rellet conferences were very gles in the economic field.
tionaries. This appelation was quick timent over reason, greater need for socour attitude toward the party are equ: narrow and their efforts will be directed The needle trades: By consistently dropped and its previous name ro alibility and self expression, impulsiveLeft wing activities within the reaction vired. The total results of these adness, plus the inexperience and lack of ally valid hereThe Opposition will toward giving them a broader insis. In finneapolis leadership succeeded in wuning the main some cases, 28, the parts and the character of the as an educand opportunitatea le against bureaueratism comrades are as busy as ever. Just now by Leon Trotsky Its away. This movement culminated working class branches in every min. Les to train Communists. The THE DRAFT PROGRAM OF THE In the policy of expulsion against the ing town in Southern Illinois, western method for accomplishing this is part relation to the youth are: The tasks of the Left Opposition in wanization to thwart the expulsion can COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL palan initiated by the of union Left wing which handed them over by Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc. there is hardly cipation in the class struggle suppleA Criticism of Fundamentals bureaucrats, this time not merely aimed 1928 some 40, 000 dress and clouk maka party nucleus left. The bitterly commented by theoretical study. Propaganda on the real nature and at the Communists but also against the Introduction by Cannon ers, and about 10, 000 furriers and the tested movement now taking place to 35c functions of the Young Communist Lea progressive workers.
140 pages hard paper cover under their absolute leadership. After Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia bids fact that each generation arrives at com. sue. as the THE STRATEGY OF THE WORLD going begging for two yours for blocfair to once more revive the possibil Our Expansion Program REVOLUTION and bargains with the Forward laborities of Communist penetration providmunks under changed objective condi Elaboration of youth polleles on While big progress cannot be reported.
86 pages, two colored paper cover 250 fakers, in 1928 atter a precarious exist ing of course that the Centrist lendertions and in its own way, the the basis of facts.
Introduction by Max Shachtman this time there is nevertheless results ence as an indefinite organization, they ship does not pursue the usual course. tionally independent and because of the in its relation to the party is organizaTHE SPANISH REVOLUTION United front of youth members of showing that the interest is still alive.
launched the Needle Trades Workers 30 pages, paper cover 10c COMMUNISM AND SYNDICALISM Industriale Union. This unton was no work for a number of years has been superior expertence and knowledge of the prosition with on every possi rom the preceding notex it will be obble occasion hectic nd the marine industry. In 1921 the tire class It is politically subordinate in a modest way toward extending our The Trade Union Question venturiem commenced. The outstanding alone boasted 125, 000 members or uilding of a strong fraction in y. general organization activities. That, of Introduction by James Cannon to it.
classle of these policier was the order roughly 85 percent of all deep sea workC.
15c course, is part of our program and thus 64 pages, paper cover ing of workers to remain on the jobers. The same proportion of organiza6. The Young Communist League is THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION Relentless criticism of indicates further advance. If the preStalinist while the Right wing unlons hal called tion provalled in a lesser degree amongst broader form of organization than the policles In conference activities, the discussions and 208 page bookcloth bound 00 their workers on strike. The total re the harbor workers in practically every parts. It admits to its ranks all young preparations for the gathering are corpaper bound workers who want to become Commun Special attention to Marxian edu rectly connected up with the material TURN IN THE COMMUNIST ists while the party admits to its ranks cation of youth comrades in the opposi aspect of finances we will be sure to INTERNATIONAL AND THE to be those who are Communists that is, those tion.
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